--- title: Pufferfish swallow water to swell into a ball too big to eat, and a… — Coral reef partners and tricksters: clownfish, c… · tree and pragmatics description: Pufferfish swallow water to swell into a ball too big to eat, and a male pufferfish draws beautiful circles in the sand on the sea floor to attract a female. Who acts: Pufferfish, male pufferfish. A sentence of the lesson «Coral reef partners and tricksters: clownfish, cleaners, mimics and puffers» --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/173-coral-reef-partners-and-tricksters-clownfish-cleaners-mimics-and-puffers/9/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Coral reef partners and tricksters: cl…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/173-coral-reef-partners-and-tricksters-clownfish-cleaners-mimics-and-puffers/) / 9 # Coral reef partners and tricksters: clownfish, cleaners, mimics and puffers, sentence 9 Pufferfish swallow water to swell into a ball too big to eat, and a male pufferfish draws beautiful circles in the sand on the sea floor to attract a female. **Who acts:** Pufferfish, male pufferfish · **What happens:** swallow, swell, eat, draw, attract · **To what, where:** water, ball, beautiful circles, sand, female This is a sentence of the lesson «Coral reef partners and tricksters: clownfish, cleaners, mimics and puffers» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pufferfish, male pufferfish), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:173-coral-reef-partners-and-tricksters-clownfish-cleaners-mimics-and-puffers.lesson:9 # text = Pufferfish swallow water to swell into a ball too big to eat, and a male pufferfish draws beautiful circles in the sand on the sea floor to attract a female. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 173-coral-reef-partners-and-tricksters-clownfish-cleaners-mimics-and-puffers.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×5, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Pufferfish Pufferfish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 2 swallow swallow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:nsubj 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 swell swell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 6 into into ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 too too ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 acl _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 xcomp _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 male male ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 pufferfish pufferfish NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 draws draw VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 19 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 circles circle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 sand sand NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 24 on on ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 floor floor NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 attract attract VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:advcl 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 female female NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **swallow** | present | Pufferfish | water | | | | | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient | | 2 | **swell** | to-infinitive | Pufferfish *not said here* | | | a ball | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 3 | **eat** | to-infinitive | Pufferfish *not said here* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **draw** | present | a male pufferfish | beautiful circles | | the sand on the sea floor | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent circle=Theme in sand=Destination | | 5 | **attract** | to-infinitive | a male pufferfish *not said here* | a female | | | | | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent female=Patient | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:173-coral-reef-partners-and-tricksters-clownfish-cleaners-mimics-and-puffers.lesson:9`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×5, R6-punct-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. 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